Cameroon officials have proposed a plan to auction off licenses that would permit oil companies to drill in the Douala-Edéa Wildlife Reserve. This area is home to the threatened West African manatee and many other endangered or otherwise vulnerable animal

Last week, Ecuador's National Assembly voted to allow oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park. This drilling project would produce 980 million barrels of crude oil and roughly $18.3 billion in profit for Ecuador, but the environmental toll on the park wo

The Ecuadorean government's decision to allow oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse areas of the planet, has caused alarm among environmentalists and indigenous people, who are calling for a referendum on the issue

The Yasuni National Park is likely the most biologically diverse spot on the planet.
Due to a lack of promised funding to preserve all of htepark, Ecuador's Preident wants to open up a small part of the park to Big Oil for drilling.

Oil giant Shell has reaffirmed its plans to drill there in the future -- and the Obama Administration appears willing to let them. Tell new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to put the Polar Bear Seas permanently off-limits to Big Oil!

A coalition of 17 conservation groups are calling on the Obama Administration to suspend offshore oil and gas drilling in the Arctic after Shell's attempt to drill there has been undermined by a series of mishaps
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Tensions over oil and gas drilling on or near indigenous territories in the Amazon have flared again as Ecuador seeks bidders for oil leases and a company in Peru expands its operations into an area inhabited by nomadic groups that shun contact

There are many reasons Shell wasn't able to drill this year, but the big culprit is Shell's own lack of preparedness. From not meeting its Clean Air permits to a damaged oil spill containment dome, Shell showed that it just couldn't drill safely.

Shell was set to kickstart the Arctic oil rush. The company had already invested seven years and about $5,000,000,000 to make it happen. But thanks to Mother Nature, its own incompetence and the millions of people who have taken action to save the Arctic